I'm thinking the bad wmv files thing is due to the graphics drivers. But I've tried several older versions including the ones that came with my card (which I know work) and it's not fixing it, I'm just wondering if the newer drivers have changed something somewhere that isn't getting changed back by uninstalling them or replacing them with older drivers.
It seems that SH4 doesn't like the ION releases of the nvidia graphics drivers (anything after 182.50) with my card. Not sure if that's due to the power problem (perhaps newer ones need more juice, I dunno) or not.
I've never had a problem like this with this PC and I've thrown everything at it in the last 2 years, Oblivion, Fallout 3, FSX, COD4... They all run... Slowly, but they do run. Seems odd that it gets tripped up by some wmv's and a 2 year old sub sim.
|